Kinsteads:
/kɪn, stɛds/
plural of kinstead (n.)
Nodes of networked interaction.
Cohering people and place.
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A four-day bioregional gathering of representatives from local networks enacting responsible cultural and environmental stewardship.
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A barefoot ceremony of bass, embodied movement and deep listening.
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Kinsteads Association
This is not a public-facing organisation.
It is a trust-held relational field — stewarded through gatherings, conversation, and care.
The Kinsteads Association is an alliance of individuals who agree to cohere around an ethos of place-based belonging.
Our Ethos
Kinsteads ethos principles
Custodianship
We tend to place, and to each other, with dignity and care.
Attunement
We listen deeply — to land, to kin, to the unseen and the unspoken
Reciprocity
We practice mutual respect, offering what we can and receiving with grace
Integrity
We honour our word, our limits, and the quiet truths of timing
Presence
We show up as we are, and make space for becoming.
FOUNDing member
Even Dawn
Jingi walla! I’m Even Dawn. Kinsteads began not as a plan, but as a feeling — a quiet coherence I kept sensing, and kept mapping until I had systems that hold more than information — they hold care.
Relational Strategy
Story Architecture
Cultural Stewardship
This association isn’t something I set out to build. It emerged through relation — and continues to unfold through trust, conversation, and presence.
Location
Ngarakwal-Midginbil Jagun
Bundjalung Nation
Sovereignty never ceded
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